SEO Manager
Location: GB, CMD, London
Department: SEO
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Associate
Required education: Unspecified
Industry: Internet
Function: Marketing

Company profile:
Forward3D is the largest independent digital marketing agency in Britain. We run cutting edge digital marketing campaigns across paid search, natural search, display and social by using industry-leading linguistics and technology. Our localisation and origination service, Locaria, allows us to scale our clients' campaigns and content internationally. We cover an unequalled range of languages and have experience of running marketing campaigns in over 40 markets to date. Our in-house team of linguists localise content, keywords and copy to support the expansion of our clients’ businesses on a global scale. We started life in 2005 as “Traffic Broker”, an affiliate risking our own money. In the last nine years we have grown to over 200 in-house analysts, serving some of the world’s biggest brands and achieving ten million clicks per day, across 60 markets and in 45 languages. “Innovate every day” is our mantra, combined with an affinity for data and insightful analysis. We’ve stayed ahead of the curve by providing industry-leading apps and tech infrastructure to support our analysts. Forward3D is part of The Forward Internet Group - a fast-growing business with a portfolio of innovative brands that employs over 200 people in our Camden, New York, Shanghai and Seoul offices. As well as doubling revenues year on year for the last four years, we’ve picked up several accolades including The Sunday Times Tech Track 100, Deloitte Technology Fast 50 and National Business Awards.

Job description:
SEO/Content ManagerThe SEO/Content Manager will be responsible for creating SEO strategies and implementing multiple campaigns to deliver growth in organic search and targeted traffic.The ideal candidate will be proactive with great enthusiasm, with great passion for Digital, keeping up to date with the latest development, trends and technologies in the online world.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Creating and implementing SEO strategies in line with business objectives Management of the SEO budget and agency relationship On page SEO (content) and advising on SEO best practice Link Building activity including advising and working with editorial and marketing  teams on social media plans and activity Working closely with development teams and signing off on site developments Monitoring &amp; Reporting on rankings for key search terms and overall organic traffic Create, brief and implement on page recommendations in line with key digital  revenue objectives Undertake strategic research providing insight into keyword and keyword cluster    profitability Line management of an Content Marketing Executives Provide insight into link building techniques and new technology/partnerships

Requirements:
KEY SKILLS: Minimum 2 years SEO exposure in an in-house role or an agency developing and executing optimisation plansExperience of creating strategies and plans and workingCreative approach - able to come up with new ideas for creative briefDiplomatic and persuasive interpersonal skillsStrong communicator with a good ability to explain and deliver SEO insight and recommendations to non SEO expertsFamiliar with Google analytics &amp; Webmaster toolsFamiliar with keyword research &amp; technical audit toolsetFamiliar with outreach tools eg BuzzStreamA passion for SEO with up to date industry knowledge/latest trends - algorithm updates such as Panda, Penguin, Hummingbird and the impactMicrosoft ExcelExperience of managing a small team 

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